Other Grant Opportunities for Students and PhD

Launching on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence and celebrating the French-American friendship, the Lafayette Fellowship will fund one year of master’s level study in France for up to 30 outstanding American students.

Funding covers tuition, living expenses, travel, program activities, and administrative costs.
Applicants must be in possession of a bachelor’s degree from a U.S. institution (completed between August 2023 and June 2026) with a GPA of no lower than 3.7.
Knowledge of French is not required for acceptance into the program.

For more information, go to the Villa Albertine website.

The Jérôme Lohez 9/11 Scholarship Foundation was launched in November 2005 in honor of Jérôme Robert Lohez, a French citizen who passed away in the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. The foundation’s mission is to foster French and American unity and cultural understanding, by supporting scientific and technological exchanges in higher education, in honor of those diverse citizens who perished in the 2001 attacks in New York. The Jérôme Lohez Foundation is partnering with the Alliance Program to open scholarship opportunities to international students studying in the program. Alliance is a Transatlantic academic joint-venture between Columbia University, the Ecole Polytechnique, Sciences Po, and Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Guidelines:

The foundation may provide scholarships to:

• One student from Columbia University pursuing a year of study in one of the three French institutions.
• One student from one of the French institutions pursuing a year of study at Columbia University.
• The award ranges from $2,000 to $3,000, to be determined by the board of directors.
• All students who participate in a dual-degree program, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, are eligible to apply to the scholarship program, regardless of nationality.

Application and Eligibility information can be found on the Lohez Foundation’s Website and also on its Facebook page.

Applications are open until December 31st, with results announced in January.

Opportunities for US students: https://us.fulbrightonline.org/

Opportunities for Non-US citizens: https://foreign.fulbrightonline.org/

Alliance funds collaborative student-led projects between two or more of the partner universities: Columbia University, Sciences Po, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Polytechnique.

All students (Undergraduates, Master and PhD candidates in all majors) enrolled at Columbia University, Sciences Po, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne or École Polytechnique are eligible to apply. We accept applications on a rolling basis.

Applications must include:

Cover page including the project title and the e-mail and telephone number of project leads.
List of participating students, faculty, or researchers and their respective institutional affiliation. (If participation is not confirmed from attendees, please list the projected number of attendees).
Narrative (five pages maximum) describing the project, participating institutions, timeline, the relevance of transatlantic collaboration in the field and the project’s potential for encouraging future endeavors between the institutions, including long-term institutional collaboration.
One-page budget detailing the cost allocation of the project with amounts specified by category (travel, accommodation, catering etc.) and a provisional timeline. Please also mention if the project intends to attract external funding.

Previously funded projects include:

Summer School in Science and Policy - Sustainable Development Doctoral Society at Columbia University in the City of New York
Summer School in Art History - Association des Doctorants en Histoire de l'Art – ED 441 – Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne

Please send your applications and inquiries to [email protected]

École Polytechnique accepts doctoral students in Earth and Environmental Sciences for one-semester research visits and for the Fluid Dynamics of Sustainability and the Environment summer school.

Contact

DGS in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences:

Goran Ekstrom
E-mail: [email protected]

French Embassy Grants & Programs

Cultural Services of the French Embassy promote the best of French arts, literature, cinema, language, and higher education across the US. Based in New York City, Washington D.C and eight other cities across the country, the French Cultural Services brings artists, authors, educational and university programs to cities nationwide. It also builds partnerships between French and American artists, institutions, and universities on both sides of the Atlantic.

For more information on grants available to undergraduate students, click here.

For more information on grants available to graduate students, click here.

Henri De Castries Scholarship

Through the Henri de Castries Scholarship, Sciences Po will offer a merit-based scholarship for students in order to help them sustain their stay in France during their studies. Students enrolled in the Dual degree BA program between Sciences Po and Columbia may apply.

The $10,000 scholarship is awarded on an annual basis.

The first Henri de Castries Scholarship will be awarded in 2017.

For more information, please visit Sciences Po.

AXA Research Fund

The AXA Research Fund provides grants for research institutions, projects and Chairs, as well as doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships, with the mission to boost scientific progress and discoveries that contribute to understanding and preventing environmental, life, and socio-economic risks. Projects must fit one of these three categories of risk identified by the AXA Scientific Board, but can come from any discipline.

For more information, please visit the AXA Reasearch Fund website .

Chateaubriand Fellowship Program

The Chateaubriand Fellowship is a grant offered by the Embassy of France in the United States. Every year, it allows doctorate students enrolled in American universities to conduct research in France for up to 10 months. The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fellowship program and the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) fellowship program have different modes of selection but they are both merit-based and highly prestigious. Chateaubriand recipients receive a stipend, a round trip ticket to France, and health insurance.

For more information, please visit the program website.

Institut Des Amériques Doctoral Contracts And Project Applications

Doctoral contract, research funding, and project opportunities for students and researchers at institutions that are members of the Institut des Amériques (including Sciences Po and Panthéon-Sorbonne University). For more information, please visit the Institut des Amériques website.

Applications are usually due in early September for doctoral contract applications and late September for project and funding applications.

Fernand Braudel-IFER Postdoctoral Fellowships

The Fernand Braudel-IFER programme offers postdoctoral fellowships to researchers in the social and human sciences (SHS) who wish to have an international research experience. The Fernand Braudel-IFER incoming programme is intended specifically for foreign researchers who wish to benefit from a research stay in France.

Incoming applications are accepted at a number of laboratories at Panthéon-Sorbonne University (IPOPS, HASTEC, RESMED) and Sciences Po (IDDRI). Please consult the fellowship offering for a detailed list.